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Beetdiggers send Brush songsters to all- state choir contest

ByKATIE COLLINS Brush News-Tribune

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02/08/2013 12:27:59 PM MST

Brush High School seniors Cameron Crandall, left, and Allison Waltman? fine-tuned their vocal instruments during choir practice on Monday to prepare for their second year in a row being selected for the All-State Honor Choir competition at Denver s BellCo Theatre, with the state-wide concert slated to take the stage at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9.
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After propelling 33 selected students to perform at the Patriot League Honor Band and Honor Ensembles concert, held recently at Greeley's Union Colony Civic Center (UCCC), Brush High School Band and Choir Director Darline Miner is gearing up for another round of musical competition this Saturday as BHS seniors Cameron Crandall and Allison Waltman have made it through an arduous round of auditions to be selected for the 2013 All-State Honor Choir competition.

Both seniors are no strangers to the test as Crandall and Waltman enjoy their second year straight of being selected to compete and perform at the state level event.

"This time we could expect more, having been through it last year," said Waltman, "so tryouts this year were definitely easier."

"We knew this drill this time," commented Crandall. "We knew more about picking our songs and how to prepare for the auditions."

With students statewide becoming eligible for only their junior and senior years of participation, the double honor for the 'Digger duo, who have both been belting out tunes with school choirs since elementary school, is especially unique and both are beaming with pride to participate.

Auditions began in October of last year when over 2,000 students from Colorado convened in Fort Collins with prepared pieces to compete in singing song scales, triads and in sight-reading.

The 2013 Colorado All-State Choir competition will begin with select students such as Crandall and Waltman partaking in two days of tense rehearsals before culminating in the feature concert, slated to begin at 7 p.

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m. on Saturday, February 9 at the Denver Convention Center's BellCo Theatre, formerly known as the Wells Fargo Theatre. More information on the All-State Choir Concert can also be found online at aschoir.com.

For Crandall, the competition won't end there, as the BHS senior has also been selected to perform on his trumpet for the 2013 All-State Band competition, slated for April 4-6 at the UCCC in Greeley.

BHS Seniors Cameron Crandall (left) and Allison Waltman (right) fine-tuned their vocal instruments during Choir practice on Monday to prepare for their second-year-in-a-row of being selected for the All-State Honor Choir competition at Denver's BellCo Theatre, with the statewide concert slated to take the stage at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9.

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